Claude Tousignant | |
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| Born | December 23, 1932 |
| Education | School of Art and Design at the MBAM |
| Known for | Painter, Sculptor |
| Notable work | "Chromatic accelerator" series |
| Movement | Plasticiens, Tachism |
| Awards | Officer of the Order of Canada Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts |
Claude Tousignant OC RCA (born December 23, 1932, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian artist. [1] Tousignant is considered to be an important contributor to the development of geometric abstraction in Canada. [2] [3] [4] He masterly used alternating values of complementary colours in innovative ways in his circle/target paintings.
Claude Tousignant was born in Montreal, Quebec. [1] From 1948 to 1951, he attended the School of Art and Design at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts where he studied under Arthur Lismer, Louis Archambault, Marian Dale Scott, Jacques de Tonnancour and Gordon Webber. [1] [5] He then travelled to Paris where he studied at the Académie Ranson. returning to Montreal in the spring of 1952. [5]
Tousignant is considered a member of the second generation of the modern art movement in Montreal called "les Plasticiens". [6] [2] This group of four painters (Jean-Paul Jérôme, Louis Belzile, Rodolphe de Repentigny and Fernand Toupin) felt painting should be pure form and colour; meaning and spontaneous expression were to be avoided. [7] In 1962, Tousignant introduced the form of the circle, which would become his signature motif, into his geometric paintings. [8]
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Diametrically opposed to the spontaneous expression of the unconscious—replete with associative meaning—as was earlier sought by the Automatistes, the Plasticiens hoped to achieve a precise uncomplicated response to the painted object.
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